Placement Officer: Professor Leonardo Felli
Administrative Support: Samantha Keenan
Royal Economic Society Seventh PhD Presentation Meeting
Information on 2011/2012 candidates
Congratulations to our candidates who have been placed as follows.
We wish all our candidates good luck in their future careers!
Roberto Bonfatti
University of Nottingham: Lecturer
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Job Market Paper: "Trade and the Pattern of Western Imperialism, 1492-1970"
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Main Fields: International Trade, Political Economy
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Secondary Fields: Development Economics, Economic History
Jiaqian (Jack) Chen
IMF: Economist
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Job Market Paper: "Firm Productivity and The Current Account: One Country with Two Financial Markets"
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Main Fields: International Macroeconomics, Macro-Finance, Chinese Economy
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Secondary Fields: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics
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Supervisor: Professor Danny Quah
Tom Cunningham
Harvard University: Post-doctoral Fellow
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Job Market Paper: "Comparisons and Choice"
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Main Fields: Applied Micro, Behavioural, Political Economy
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Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics
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Supervisor: Professor Francesco Caselli
Ana Damas de Matos
HEC Montreal: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "The Careers of Immigrants"
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Main Fields: Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics
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Secondary Fields: Development Economics
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Supervisors: Dr Barbara Petrongolo, Professor Alan Manning
Jungyoon Lee
New College of Humanities, London: Lecturer
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Job Market Paper: "Series Estimation under Cross-sectional Dependence"
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Main Fields: Econometric Theory, Nonparametric Econometrics
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Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Probability and Statistics
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Supervisor: Professor Peter Robinson
Iain Long
University of Cardiff: Lecturer
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Job Market Paper: "Recruitment to Organised Crime"
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Main Fields: Economics of Crime, Microeconomics
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Secondary Fields: Political Economics, Labour Economics
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Supervisor: Professor Leonardo Felli
Guy Mayraz
University of Melbourne: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper 1: "Priors and Desires. A Model of Payoff-Dependent Beliefs"
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Job Market Paper 2: "Wishful Thinking"
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Main Fields: Behavioural Economics
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Secondary Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Experimental Economics
Luke Ian Miner
New Economics School, Moscow: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "The Unintended Consequences of Internet Diffusion: Evidence from Malaysia"
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Main Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy
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Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics, Public Policy
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Supervisors: Professor Robin Burgess, Dr Gerard Padro I Miquel
Tara Mitchell
Trinity College Dublin: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "Middlemen, Bargaining and Price Information: Is Knowledge Power?"
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Main Fields: Development Economics
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Secondary Fields: Agricultural Economics
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Supervisors: Professor Tim Besley, Dr Greg Fischer
Ashwini Natraj
Vivid Economics: Economist
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Job Market Paper: "Some Unintended Consequences of Political Quotas"
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Main Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy
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Secondary Fields: Labour, Applied Microeconomics
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Supervisors: Professor Oriana Bandiera, Dr Gerard Padro I Miquel
Victor Ortego-Marti
University of California, Riverside: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "Unemployment History and Frictional Wage Dispersion"
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Main Fields: Macroeconomics
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Secondary Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
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Supervisor: Professor Alwyn Young
Thomas Schelkle
University of Cologne: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "Market Default during the U.S. Mortgage Crisis"
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Main Fields: Macroeconomics
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Secondary Fields: Financial Economics, Development Economics, Computational Methods
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Supervisor: Professor Francesco Caselli
Christian Siegel
University of Exeter: Lecturer
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Job Market Paper: "Female Employment and Fertility - The Effects of Rising Female Wages"
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Main Fields: Macroeconomics
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Secondary Fields: International Economics
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Supervisor: Professor Francesco Caselli
Daniel Stein
Development Impact Evaluation Initiative: Economist
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Job Market Paper: "Paying Premiums with the Insurer's Money: How Loss Aversion Drives Dynamic Insurance Decisions"
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Main Fields: Development Economics
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Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics
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Supervisors: Professor Tim Besley, Dr Greg Fischer
Oliver Vanden Eynde
PSE: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "Targets of Violence: Evidence from India's Naxalite Conflict"
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Main Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy
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Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economic History
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Supervisors: Professor Robin Burgess, Dr Gerard Padro I Miquel
Jan Zapal
CERGE-EI: Assistant Professor & Postdoc: Universitat Autonoma
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Job Market Paper: "Explicit and Implicit Status-Quo Determination in Dynamic Bargaining: Theory and Application to FOMC Directive"
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Main Fields: Political Economics, Microeconomics
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Secondary Fields: Game Theory, Public Finance
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Supervisor: Professor Ronny Razin
Post-Doctoral Candidates 2011/2012
Ferdinand Rauch
University of Oxford: Lecturer
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Job Market Paper:"Advertising Expenditure and Consumer Prices"
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Main Fields: International Trade and Economic Geography
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Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics
Guilhem Cassan
University of Namur: Assistant Professor
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Job Market Paper: "Law and Identity Manipulation: Evidence from Colonial Punjab"
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Main Fields: Development Economics, Economic History
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Secondary Fields: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics